Tech company friendly: Feingold (L) may be sympathetic to the privacy concerns of technology companies and civil liberties groups on issues such as encryption and domestic spying. He is pictured with Johnson.
WASHINGTON: Next month's US Senate election in Wisconsin could gain Silicon Valley a key ally in Washington in the high-tech industry's battle against the US government's growing appetite for more access to private data.
Democrat Russ Feingold, 63, the only lawmaker to vote against the USA Patriot Act in 2001, leads incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson in the state in opinion polls ahead of the Nov 8 election.
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